Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, not cut to shape powder and waste thereof
HS heading 05.08 covers Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, not cut to shape powder and waste thereof. It sits within Chapter 05 and breaks down into 1 six-digit subheadings at the border.
Sourcing this category from India
Products classified under HS 05.08 can be sourced from India across a range of clusters and price points. Use this page to understand where Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, not cut to shape powder and waste thereof sits in the tariff schedule, then explore the Indian sectors and products that supply it.
How to read this code
05.08 is the four-digit HS heading. Your destination country extends it to 8–10 digits and assigns the duty rate. India's preferential trade agreements (UAE CEPA, Australia ECTA, and others) can reduce or zero out that duty for many goods — check our import guides for your market.
Subheadings under HS 05.08
The Harmonised System breaks Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared, shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, not cut to shape powder and waste thereof into these 1 subheadings. Drill down to the exact classification for your goods.
Related codes in Animal originated products; not elsewhere specified or included
Human hair; unworked, whether or not washed or scoured; waste of human hair
05.02Pigs', hogs' or boars' bristles and hair; and waste thereof
05.04Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish); whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked
05.05Skins and other parts of birds with feathers, down; feathers, down and parts thereof; not further worked than cleaned, disinfected, treated for preservation; powder, waste and parts of feathers
05.06Bones and horn-cores, unworked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or degelatinised; powder and waste of these products
05.07Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks unworked or simply prepared, not cut to shape; waste and powder of these products
05.10Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk; cantharides; bile, dried or not glands, other animal products used in preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved
05.11Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption
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